The Puffer Forum

Hey folks, Pazuzu is looking MUCH better. His sore is actually closing up, with minimal scarring. I finished the 2nd round of Maracyn and the first dose of Maracyn 2, and it looked much better. At this point, I am doing 25% water changes daily to deal with the fact that I probably killed off most of...

sevenyearnight wrote:The new API Freshwater Master Kit doesn't test for GH and KH

Lame... the price has gone up since I last bought it, and the one I last bought came with GH & KH.

Today is the 4th treatment of the Maracyn 2, and the second round of Maracyn. Pazuzu is still holding strong! He is looking a lot better. I will try to get a good picture and update the post with more specifics tomorrow.

Thanks again for all of the support!

The Minocycline (Maracyn 2) seems to be working. After the first treatment, his mouth is showing progress. There is a lot less white tissue than there was in the last picture.

If you haven't found a test kit yet, you can get the Freshwater Master Test kit at Petsmart. It is about 30 bucks though, it tests Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, gH, kH, and pH.

Long term solution is to add crushed coral. It will also raise the pH of the water though. A short term solution would be to add baking soda. I am not sure of the exact measurments needed though, so do some research. If you google "raising kH aquarium" you will probably find your answer qu...

Petsmart.com doesn't have the media bag anymore. The store may not anymore either. But this is what you want. It shouldn't be too hard to find at a fish store. http://www.petco.com/product/7363/Petcetera-Filter-Lifeguard-Bags.aspx?CoreCat=OnSiteSearch And something like this- available from many bra...

Yes, you could put the bio-wheel into another established tank. Personally I would try and find some ceramic or another porous media and fill a media bag (available at Petsmart) or a nylon stocking with it and sink it into an established tank. You want as much surface area as possible. Those bio-bal...

Have you tried transferring some media from one of your established tank into the new tank? In the past I have filled a media bag with the ceramic bio-filtration media and left it in an established tank for about a week, and then switched that to a new tank to seed it. Are you showing Nitrites or Ni...

I do have pretty large rocks in there, they are sold as River Rock. I gravel vac weekly, and it is actually pretty easy to clean the debris out. The benefits I have found are: ghost shrimp and snails can hide in there so they are not all eaten in one feeding, and he does not get the small rocks caug...

Ohh, duh... I forgot about Maracyn Two, They sell that at my Petmart too. When I used to work for Petsmart we used Maracyn and Maracyn Two together in our sick tanks with a decent success rate. I am already doing daily 50% water changes, so that should take care of the water parameters while I am me...

It isn't red, maybe it is healing, but the edges of the wound are definitely not as "clean" as they were before. Now it is just white and fleshy. Could that be scar tissue or something building up? He also appears to have a little white patch developing on the top of his body. I tried to g...

Normal. I have an arrowhead that eats so fast that the worm comes shooting out his gills. He spits it out and then eats it like spaghetti again. I think it may be a kill tactic. Pazuzu did that a couple of times and it freaked me out. I started cutting the worms into smaller pieces before feeding t...

Update: Today was day 4 of the Maracyn/Pimafix/Melafix treatment with daily ~40% water changes. His mouth still pretty ragged, but it looks like it is healing. It is definitely not visibly regressing, but the edges of the sore are still white and a little rough. Tomorrow is the last dose of Maracyn,...

No progress today. I am going to do my water change, and retreat the tank.

The infected area of his mouth hasn't spread aggressively... I may be imagining it, but it looks like the area around the infection is lightening up a little bit though.